Count OkCupid among those celebrating the resignation of Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich on Thursday. The dating site protested Mozilla on Monday by discouraging users to visit its site via Firefox, in an attempt to bring awareness to Eich's 2008 political ...

Move over, Mark Zuckerberg -- there's a new top CEO in town. Glassdoor, a website that catalogs information about workplaces, published a list of the top 50 highest rated company CEOs, based on employee feedback. In 2013, Zuckerberg, Facebook's well-...

Popular crowdfunding platform Kickstarter announced that CEO Perry Chen will step away from his duties as CEO in part of a major executive shakeup announced on Wednesday. Chen will take over as the company's chairman beginning on Jan. 1, and fellow K...

Mark Zuckerberg was by far the highest paid public CEO in the United States last year, according to a new report. The Facebook CEO's total compensation for 2012 was nearly $2.3 billion, more than twice that of the next-highest paid CEO, according to ...

The fuel cell industry has been the next big thing for nearly as long as it’s been around. Invented in the early 19th century, fuel cells are an efficient and clean way to produce energy. Hydrogen (the fuel) is pumped into a stack of various metals (...

Businesses can no longer afford to have top leaders sit on the social media sidelines, a new study finds. More than three-quarters of executives worldwide believe it is a good idea for CEOs to participate in social media, the research from public rel...

It’s Thursday morning, you’re in the elevator, and the CEO skates between closing doors to join you for a 30-floor ride. You consider commenting on the unseasonably balmy weather, but inquire about her watch instead. You then exchange a series of jok...

Intel's new chief executive must reverse the last decade of declining market share. Intel's new CEO Brian M. Krzanich, elected by the board this week to replace retiring chief executive Paul Otellini, is a longtime Intel insider whose vision must now...

Besides the Galaxy S 4 announcement yesterday, Samsung also announced a big change in leadership, adding two new CEOs to the company. Presidents Boo-keun Yoon and JK Shin will join current CEO Oh-Hyun Kwon, meaning the company will now have three CEO...

Groupon isn't going anywhere, but Andrew Mason might be. That was the message given off by Mason, Groupon's co-founder and CEO, during an interview with Henry Blodget at Business Insider's Ingition conference on Wednesday. In response to several repo...

The Twitter account of Dell CEO Michael Dell's daughter Alexa disappeared from the Internet Friday, after one of her Instagram photos was picked up by a popular Tumblr blog. Alexa posted an Instagram photo, which she also shared to Twitter, of her br...

When you're occupying the C-suite, you may not have time to think about tweets, Facebook posts, Foursquare checkins and Pinterest boards. But you should. Social media is an increasingly important tool for building brands, connecting with customers an...

Kazuo Hirai is Sony's new CEO and President, replacing Howard Stringer, the company has announced. The change is effective April 1st, and comes after a couple of rough years for Sony, with 2011 being particularly troublesome. The company's earnings w...

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. There's no set formula for startup success. Some companies focus on design...

In her first press conference after she took the helm of HP, new CEO Meg Whitman vowed to stay the course set by her predecessor, former CEO Leo Apotheker. She wants to continue the purchase of British software company Autonomy for the eye-popping pr...

Apple was quick to update its executive profiles page, after Steve Jobs's announcement late Wednesday that he will step down from his position as Apple CEO. The page now reflects the new organizational structure of the company. Tim Cook is now listed...

Following Steve Jobs's resignation announcement, Apple has named Tim Cook its new CEO. Cook, 50, joined Apple in March 1998. According to Apple, before Cook joined the company, he was vice president of corporate materials for Compaq and was "responsi...

The Social Analyst is a column by Mashable Co-Editor Ben Parr, where he digs into social media trends and how they are affecting companies in the space. Ten years ago, Google co-founder Larry Page gave up his role as CEO to an executive who had more ...

Google co-founder Larry Page replaces Eric Schmidt as CEO of the company Monday. Schmidt will continue as the executive chairman. While it's not a drastic change -- Page was already the CEO of Google once, and has had a leading role since the company...

Sir Howard Stringer, CEO of Sony, accidentally told everyone in the world that his company will be supplying image sensors for Apple's iPhone 5. In an interview late Friday with the Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg, the Sony chief was talking abou...

Speaking at a panel on "Open Innovation" at the DLD conference in Munich, Germany, today Google's VP of consumer products Marissa Mayer spoke about the recent changes in Google's leadership. "Well, for a long time Google has been a triumvirate ... la...

We're still digesting the bombshell announcement that Google co-founder Larry Page is replacing Eric Schmidt as CEO. The change, effective April 4, will take Larry Page to the top while Eric Schmidt will take on the role of executive chairman. At the...

Time magazine coverboy and billionaire Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been named one of the 10 worst-dressed guys of 2010 by Esquire magazine. When Esquire was putting together its "2010 Celebrity Style Hall of Shame" list, it didn't have to look f...

Not thrilled that Apple's Ping music service doesn't integrate with Facebook? Well, Apple feels the same way — that's allegedly why Steve Jobs invited Mark Zuckerberg over for dinner to talk. When Apple first launched the music discovery and social n...

After a summer of searching, Finland-based Nokia has chosen a new CEO: Stephen Elop, the president of Microsoft's Business division. Earlier this year, reports surfaced that Nokia was unhappy with the leadership of CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, especiall...

Former HP CEO Mark Hurd is in talks to join computer technology corporation Oracle "as a top executive," the Wall Street Journal reports. Hurd resigned from his position at HP after an investigation into a sexual harassment claim made by a former HP ...

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